Chinese regulators have announced they will vet all social media information before being published by media agencies to stop the spreading of "false reports" and "rumours"

The internet has not evolved in the way it had been envisioned.

Facebook has confirmed that it is working with the Māori Language Commission on "the appropriate use of Māori language" on its platform.

COMMENT: A selection of ways you can use your smartphone camera.

Animated webseries Aroha Bridge started life as a weekly comic strip, created by Jessica Hansell, better known as local rapper Coco Solid.

Among the subjects that people "love" on Facebook the most: celebrity children, nature and service animals.

A gun shop is raffling off a gun similar in type to the one used to kill 49 people in Orlando, Florida to benefit the victims of the same massacre.

Best of Business: An under-the-radar travel website was bought for $85 million by Webjet this year.

Although it may be convenient to use free, public, unsecured WiFi, these networks are the least secure.

Spark has completed a $200 million programme upgrading the backend for its customer service IT platforms.

COMMENT: At what point are the authorities asking for too much information?

Trawling Facebook can prompt the insecure mind to seek out potential relationship threats.

Twitter's new photo stickers will be searchable, like a "visual spin on the hashtag."

COMMENT: If I wanted to check Facebook or Twitter, or read something on a Western news site, I was completely out of luck.

COMMENT: Who is going to give you all these answers and without payment of money? Google!

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Here are just a few explanations behind the strangest mysteries involving Google Maps.

COMMENT: How wide is the gulf between what you know you should do; and what you actually are doing?

A whole lot of people make judgments based solely on headlines - and not the story under them.

The censors in China block access to sites like YouTube and Facebook, but people can, and often do, vault the Great Firewall.

COMMENT: Seven ways to use the new Facebook Live video streaming for your business.

Tech leaders are meeting in San Francisco to discuss making the Web a more decentralised, secure, and less censored place.

"It's really weird that there's no dinosaur emoji. I just wanted to make that happen."

Kiwi entrepreneur Jake Millar plans to use an interview with Sir Richard Branson to drive the global expansion of video education platform Unfiltered.

Apple is revamping its App Store, with a surprise move to introduce paid search ads for apps, as well as a new subscription model and faster reviews before approval.

COMMENT: A big selling point for cloud computing is resilience.

Kelli Burns may go down in history as the professor who claimed, definitively, that Facebook "eavesdrops" on its mobile users.